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16 Buzzy International World Premieres at This Year’s Toronto
From a political thriller written by Mohammad Rasoulof to two Nigerian art pics, a selection pointing the international filmmaking’s vibrance.
In it, Brady “lays bare the emotional ruptures of climate change and urban migration on Mongolian herders, told through the experiences of one family, who abandon their herding rural life for the big city after a devastating sand storm,” say Toronto program notes. Sinead O’Shea’s (“Pray For Our Sinners”) captures the indomitable O’Brien at 93 looking back on a life which saw her scandalise her native Ireland, writing “Country Girls,” a frank portrayal of female sexual desire which “didn’t break the mould, it was the one that created it,” said fellow Irish woman novelist Eimear McBride. A political thriller written by Mohammad Rasoulof, an Iranian human rights activist, granted a seven-day leave from prison, begins a dangerous two-day hike through snow-covered mountains as the first part of a daring plan to smuggle her out of Iran to reunite with her family.
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